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Last September, exasperated by Yugoslavia's dissident Communist Dictator and his blanket defense of Soviet nuclear testing, President Kennedy vowed that the U.S. would no longer give aid to nations that profess neutralism while supporting Communism. As a first step in implementing that policy, the State Department pointedly held up approval of Tito's request for 500,000 tons of surplus U.S. wheat. Tito reacted in character: he made a bitterly anti-U.S. speech, and in time-tried Communist dialectic, somehow managed to claim that the U.S. was interfering with Yugoslavia's affairs by withholding...
...October Comment attempts to "go some way toward particularizing the blanket charges of the glib critics who delight in vilifying 'the press.'" It fails in this attempt, mainly because its contributors are unable or unwilling to take firm hold of the issues implicit in their own material...
...Cook for Mr. General (by Steven Gethers) unloads a cargo of G.I. psychos and supermisfits at a Pacific rehabilitation camp. There is a baby brain who cannot sleep without his blue blanket. There is a balmy barracks lawyer whose eyes roll around like loose marbles. And there is a bearded oddball mystic who wears his G.I. blanket like a poncho, and upon being asked his rank, replies: "Commander of the forces of the Lord...
...Bullwinkle Show (NBC, 7-7:30 p.m.). PREMIERE of a comedy-variety show starring a blanket-eared, walleyed, stupid-looking, but amusing moose and other pasteboard beasts. Color...
Townsend's logic made special sense for Chrysler, which has already run $15.7 million into the red in 1961's first six months and cannot well afford to blanket all of its competitors' new models with Chrysler equivalents. And except for its intermediate gamble, Chrysler was playing its cards cautiously. Like almost all the 1962s-some of which have finally been exposed to public view (see cuts)-the new Chrysler cars reflect a trend toward smoother lines. For the first time since 1957, the Imperial and Chrysler models have lost their once-lofty fins. The new Imperials...